One of the unique methods employed by Brain Respiration is the use of the body to change the mind. It is possible to undergo complete mental and spiritual transformation through physical activity. Brain Respiration tackles the complex problems related to our dominant social paradigm through a basic understanding of the brain itself.
Many people attempt to solve emotional problems with emo tions and mental problems with the mind. However, as we have all experienced, this is not very effective. The mind, though fickle and wild when untrained, has unlimited potential for wisdom and creativity.
In DahnHak the training of mind to achieve its highest potential is much easier if we start with training the body. Brain Respiration, by adding the element of Ki energy to physical training, facilitates development of the path to the mind. It’s a fact that people change when confronted with a personal danger or threat. No matter how much the newspapers talk about environmental crisis, most of us are more concerned about the latest sports scores than the rain forests. However, when our drinking water becomes poisoned and we become sick as a result, then we will sit up and take notice. Likewise, Brain Respiration induces people to expand their awareness through physical, energy, and spiritual experience, rather than by intellectual understanding. Only personal experience can change people in a fundamental way.
As Ilchi Lee says in his book, Brain Respiration also emphasizes the relevance of habit to the transformation of consciousness. When we judge a person’s character or his level of social consciousness, we do not judge him by one or two acts. We tend to examine his overall behavior, or his habits. A person’s level of consciousness is expressed by a habitual set of behaviors. In fact, habits are the only way that we can judge a person’s character and level of consciousness.
Therefore, in order to effect a transformation of consciousness, we must first change our words and our behavior. Brain Respiration initially shows a person what his or her mental and behavioral habits have been. It then shows the individual how to develop the strength and will to change ingrained habits by becoming master of his or her own brain. In this way, Brain Respiration educates people to reform habits through a self-train ing process and re-create oneself into a new being, a New Human.
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